diff --git a/config/ide-helper.php b/config/ide-helper.php
index e3bdc574c..afe3ecad4 100644
--- a/config/ide-helper.php
+++ b/config/ide-helper.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     |
     */
 
-    'filename'  => '_ide_helper.php',
+    'filename' => '_ide_helper.php',
 
     /*
     |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -155,6 +155,19 @@
 
     ],
 
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Models to silence warnings
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | Define which models should have warnings silenced
+    |
+    */
+
+    'silenced_models' => [
+        // App\Models\User::class
+    ],
+
     /*
     |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     | Models hooks
diff --git a/src/Console/ModelsCommand.php b/src/Console/ModelsCommand.php
index d2d484ff5..020324706 100644
--- a/src/Console/ModelsCommand.php
+++ b/src/Console/ModelsCommand.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 namespace Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\Console;
 
 use Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\Contracts\ModelHookInterface;
+use Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\Enums\ModelWarning;
 use Barryvdh\Reflection\DocBlock;
 use Barryvdh\Reflection\DocBlock\Context;
 use Barryvdh\Reflection\DocBlock\Serializer as DocBlockSerializer;
@@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ class ModelsCommand extends Command
      */
     protected $foreignKeyConstraintsColumns = [];
 
+    protected $modelWarnings = [];
+
     /**
      * During initialization we use Laravels Date Facade to
      * determine the actual date class and store it here.
@@ -175,7 +178,9 @@ public function handle()
 
         $content = $this->generateDocs($model, $ignore);
 
-        if (!$this->write || $this->write_mixin) {
+        $this->handleWarnings();
+
+        if (! $this->write || $this->write_mixin) {
             $written = $this->files->put($filename, $content);
             if ($written !== false) {
                 $this->info("Model information was written to $filename");
@@ -280,7 +285,11 @@ protected function generateDocs($loadModels, $ignore = '')
 
                     $model = $this->laravel->make($name);
 
-                    $this->getPropertiesFromTable($model);
+                    try {
+                        $this->getPropertiesFromTable($model);
+                    } catch (Throwable $e) {
+                        $this->tableInspectionFailedForModel($model, $e);
+                    }
 
                     if (method_exists($model, 'getCasts')) {
                         $this->castPropertiesType($model);
@@ -1626,4 +1635,58 @@ protected function setForeignKeys($schema, $table)
             }
         }
     }
+
+    protected function handleWarnings(): void
+    {
+        if (! empty($this->modelWarnings)) {
+            foreach ($this->modelWarnings as $modelClass => $warnings) {
+                $this->newline();
+                $this->warn("{$modelClass} has the following warnings:");
+                foreach ($warnings as $warning) {
+                    $this->warn('• '.$warning->message());
+                }
+            }
+
+            $this->newline();
+            $this->warn('There are warnings for some of the models that we tried to generate docs for. Please see the output above for more information.');
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected function gracefullyHandleExceptions(): bool
+    {
+        return ! is_null($this->laravel['config']->get('ide-helper.silenced_models'));
+    }
+
+    protected function warningsAreSilencedForModel(Model $model): bool
+    {
+        $silencedModels = $this->laravel['config']->get('ide-helper.silenced_models');
+
+        return collect($silencedModels)->contains($model::class);
+    }
+
+    protected function tableInspectionFailedForModel(Model $model, ?Throwable $e = null): void
+    {
+        if ($e && ! $this->gracefullyHandleExceptions()) {
+            throw $e;
+        }
+
+        if ($this->warningsAreSilencedForModel($model)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $modelName = $model::class;
+
+        $connectionName = $model->getConnectionName() ?? $this->laravel['config']->get('database.default');
+        $driver = $model->getConnection()::class;
+
+        $this->warn("Could not get table properties for model [{$modelName}] using connection [{$connectionName}]. The underlying database driver [{$driver}] may not be supported.");
+
+        if ($e) {
+            $this->warn(get_class($e).' '.$e->getMessage());
+        }
+
+        $this->modelWarnings[$model::class] ??= [];
+
+        $this->modelWarnings[$model::class][] = ModelWarning::TableInspectionFailed;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Enums/ModelWarning.php b/src/Enums/ModelWarning.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6fa8163bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Enums/ModelWarning.php
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\Enums;
+
+enum ModelWarning
+{
+    case TableInspectionFailed;
+
+    public function message(): string
+    {
+        return match ($this) {
+            default => str($this->name)
+                ->headline()
+                ->lower()
+                ->ucfirst()
+        };
+    }
+}